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Direct-to-consumer communication by pharmaceutical companies ? Europeans deserve better

FDA Final Guidance on Patient-Reported Outcome (PRO) Measures: Use in Medical Product Development to Support Labeling Claims

Employers plan to shift more health-care costs to workers, survey reports By David S. Hilzenrath

Characteristics of Published Comparative Effectiveness Studies of Medication by Michael Hochman, MD; Danny McCormick, MD, MPH

International survey on willingness-to-pay (WTP) for one additional QALY gained: what is the threshold of cost effectiveness?

Health Care Reform — Where Do We Go from Here?

"Interpreting Hazards: The Increasing Importance of "Antidote to Anecdote" in Managed Care" by Fairman et al

"Is "Value-Based" Value Wasted? Examining Value-Based Insurance Designs Through the Lens of Cost-Effectiveness" by Melnick et al

58% of Surgeries Performed in Hospitals are Outpatient, According to AHRQ/HCUP survey.

AHRQ Introduces New Online Technical Tutorial Series With First Module on HCUP Sample Design

Doctors Face 21% Cut In Medicare Payments.

AMCP Issues Summary of White House Health Care Reform Summit

Maximus To Continue Reviewing Medicare Part D Plan Coverage Determinations

Pharmacoeconomics to Get Bigger Budgets, According to Preliminary Survey Results (Source=Marketwire)

Healthcare Rationing by Proxy: Cost-Effectiveness Analysis and the Misuse of the $50,000 Threshold in the US by Bridges et al.

The AMCP Format for Formulary Submissions, Version 3.0

Statistical Data Resources from AMCP for benchmarking in managed care

UnitedHealthcare has launched an innovative program that offers $20 discounts off certain prescription drug co-payments

Healthcare Technology News: National Health Expenditures Top 17% of GDP

UnitedHealthcare Creates Adult National Cancer Care Registry with Data and Analysis to Support Oncologists in the Fight against Cancer

Novartis’s Afinitor Cancer Drug Rejected by U.K. Cost Agency

NEJM: “Giving Teeth to Comparative-Effectiveness Research — The Oregon Experience” by Saha et al.

Oncology Innovative Pricing deal with NICE on lung cancer drug

“Medication Adherence and Enrollment in a Consumer-Driven Health Plan” by Chen,

FDA News: NICE Outlines Appeals Process for Drug Determinations

IBI: More Than Health Promotion: How Employers Manage Health and Productivity

PR Hub: NICE Recommends Approval of New Rheumatoid Arthritis (RA) Treatment Cimzia(R) (certolizumab pegol) With First of its Kind RA Patient Access Scheme

Healthcare Technology News: Privacy Survey - In Providers We Trust

NEJM article: ‘ Uncomfortable Arithmetic — Whom to Cover versus What to Cover’ by K. Baicker and A. Chandra

NEJM article: ‘ “Play-or-Pay” Insurance Reforms for Employers — Confusion and Inequity’ by B. Herring and M.V. Pauly

Centre for Reviews and Dissemination: Cost-effectiveness of interventions to promote physical activity: a modelling study

Do Health Politicians Really Listen to Health Economists? Observations from Europe by Mittendorf et al.

The Hospitalist: Evidence-Based Medicine Curveball

Health Care Reform and the Need for Comparative-Effectiveness Research

January 2010 Newsletter and Eisenberg Conference Series 2009 Are Now Available

Disease Management Care Blog: 10 Predictions for the Next Decade

Conference: Patient Experience and Patient Safety Culture, April 19-21

Funny Pharmacy Videos. These are Hysterical! Particularly "The PharmG's - Boom Intervention" Rap



journals

AHA News
Weekly health-policy news from Washington as well as national and state health care news.
American Journal of Bioethics
American Journal of Managed Care
American Journal of Medicine
American Journal of Public Health
Annals of Internal Medicine
Annals of Pharmacotherapy
Applied Health Economics and Health Policy
Bandolier
Journal contains bullet points of evidence-based medicine. Internet version is several months behind printed version.
BMC Health Services Research
Book: Cost-Effectiveness in Health and Medicine
Clearly written with an excellent glossary and index.The product of over two years of deiberation by a multi-disciplinary Public Health Service appointed panel that included economists, ethicists, psychometricians, and clinicians, it explores cost-effectiveness in the context of societal decision-making for resource allocation purposes.
Book: Decision Making in Health and Medicine: Integrating Evidence and Values
M. G. Myriam Hunink and Milt Weinstein. It is very readable, making a complex subject appear crystal clear and easy to understand. The exercises at the end of each chapter provide a useful check of understanding and examples of how to apply the skills.Overall, this book is a very useful addition to the literature on evidence-based health care, providing clear strategies for incorporating decision analysis into our daily decision making.
Book: Designing and Conducting CEA
Rather than focusing on theory, this practical book teaches students how to obtain data and then mold the data into a working analysis. All methods presented in the book adhere to the recommendations forwarded by the Panel on Cost-Effectiveness in Health and Medicine. Available from Amazon or Barnes&Noble.
Book: Economic Evaluation in Health Care: Merging Theory with Practice
To accompany the hugely sccessful 'Methods for Economic Evaluation of Health Care Programmes 2e', this book is a thorough and rigorous discussion of the methodological principles and recent advances in the rapidly advancing field of theory and practice of economic evaluation in health care. Written by an internationally acclaimed group of authors, the book provides an in-depth discussion of the latest theoretical advances and gives comprehensive reviews of the available literature. The book covers the main areas of economic evaluation, including the methods for measuring costs and outcomes, the collection of data alongside clinical studies, ways of handling uncertainty, discounting and issues relating to the transferability of economic data.
Book: Handbooks in Health Economic Evaluation
Includes 1. Decision Modelling for Health Economic Evaluation, by Briggs et al. focuses on the role and methods of decision analysis in economic evaluation. Published 2006. 2. Economic Evaluation in Clinical Trials by Glick et al. covers the design, conduct and analysis of economic evaluations alongside clinical trials and their distinctive methodological and practical issues. Published February 2007. 3. Applied Methods of Cost-Effectiveness Analysis in Health Care by Clark et al. sets out the key elements of analysing costs and outcomes, calculating cost-effectiveness and reporting results. Publication date 2008. 4. Applied Methods of Cost-Benefit Analysis in Health Care by Clark et al. provides a comprehensive guide to the theory and the practical conduct of cost-benefit analysis. Publication date 2009.
Book: Healthcare Cost, Quality, and Outcomes Book of Terms
Includes over 100 monographs covering over 400 terms used in health care delivery, management, and regulation, as well as health care outcomes research including clinical, economic, and quality-of-life research terms.
Book: Measuring Employee Productivity: A Guide to Self-Assessment Tools
Known as "The Gold Book". Excellent publication on how to choose tool, evaluation of validity/reliability, copies of instruments, all available in downloadable PDF for $49
Book: Medical Device & Diagnostic Outcomes Research: Issues & Good Research Practices
In development
Book: Methods for the Economic Evaluation of Health Care Programmes
This is my favorite book. Praise for the first edition: "The methodological chapters on cost analysis and cost utility analysis are gems... Should become the standard text on the subject at the intermediate level at which it is aimed."--Medical Decision Making "It leaves nothing important in economic evaluation analysis untouched."--Health Policy and Planning
Book: Pharmaceutical Marketing in the 21st Century
by Mickey Smith. View TOC and chapters.
Book: Pharmaceutical Marketing Strategies and Cases
By Mickey Smith
Book: Providing Efficient, Cost-effective, Quality Health Solutions In The 21st Century: Engaging Cutting Edge Care Technologies
By John Robert Coleman, et. al. Published 2005, text on strategies, case studies, etc.
Book: The Diffusion and Value of HealthCare Information Technology
Investigates the impact of electronic medical records.
Book: Dictionary of Health Economics
By AJ Culyer. This expansive Dictionary comprehensively covers the health economics, epidemiology, pharmacoeconomics, demography, medical sociology, medical statistics and bio-statistics, health policy, health administration and health service management, public health medicine and qualitative and quantitative research. Entries and definitions are provided for all key concepts listed with, in many cases, more extended entries on core or controversial ideas. Anthony Culyer has amassed a wealth of information and facts within these pages, and yet has not been reluctant to include comment on issues and ideas. This makes the Dictionary eminently readable and all the more interesting. This is a unique reference work and as such, The Dictionary of Health Economics will be a valuable reference tool for a wide audience encompassing not just health economists, but many specialists and researchers in other fields (social sciences and beyond) as well as with policymakers.
Book: Economic, Clinical, and Patient Reported Outcomes Research: Good Research Practices
This book, part of The ISPOR Outcomes Research Good Practices Series, will be a compilation of reports developed by ISPOR Task Forces and Special Interest Groups to address outcomes research methodological issues. Includes Ethics for researchers; modeling studies; economic/PE studies; real world studies; communicating outcomes research information to HC decision makers; use of outcomes research in HC decisions
Book: Pharmacoeconomics in Perspective
By Robert Bonk
Book: Platinum Book
How to assess health and productivity management programs (work productivity impairment due to health). This is an excellent resource for anyone engaged in employer-demonstration projects.
Book: Strategies in Pharmacoeconomics and Outcomes Research
By Reinhard Rychlik, MA, MD, PhD Professor; Director of the Institute of Empirical Health Economics, Burscheid, Germany
Cancer News on the Net ®
CDC Morbidity and Mortality Weekly
Excellent source of new epidemiologic data.
CDC WONDER
GREAT SITE! WONDER provides a single point of access to a wide variety of reports and numeric public health data. Wide-ranging OnLine Data for Epidemiologic Research -- an easy-to-use, menu-driven system.
Clinical Therapeutics
The indexed journal Clinical Therapeutics features a specialty section, "Pharmaceutical Economics & Health Policy" specialty section that features articles on economic evaluation, health outcomes, and policy issues related to drug therapy.
Cochrane Database of Systematic Reviews (COCH)
Essential site for any therapeutic area you are working on. The Cochrane Database of Systematic Reviews (COCH) includes the full text of the regularly updated systematic reviews of the effects of healthcare prepared by The Cochrane Collaboration. The reviews are presented in two types: (1) Complete reviews - Regularly updated Cochrane Reviews, prepared and maintained by Collaborative Review Groups;(2)Protocols - Protocols for reviews currently being prepared. Protocols are the background, objectives and methods of reviews in preparation.
Cost Effectiveness and Resource Allocation
Current Medical Research Opinion
Cutting Edge Information
Syndicated reports on industry trends
Data/Trends from Managed Care Digest
Very interesting, rich site: Click on the different tabs for access to market overview slides by therapeutic area, HMO industry overview, prescription drug costs, etc.
Disease Management & Health Outcomes
Disease Management and Clinical Outcomes
Drug Benefit News
Drug Benefit Trends
Economic Analysis Worksheet to evaluate journal article
Critical Appraisal worksheet for economic analysis journal article.
Economics and Human Biology
E-Doc Medical Information for South Africa
On line daily news with special areas devoted to medical, nursing, pharmaceutical companies, consumers, etc.
Employer Health Management E-News
From the Benfield Group. Click to download archives. Excellent for anyone doing employer research.
European Journal of Health Economics
European Journal of Health Economics
Expert Review of Pharmacoeconomics & Outcomes Research
Expert Review of Pharmacoeconomics & Outcomes Research (ISSN 1473-7167) provides expert reviews on cost-benefit and pharmacoeconomic issues relating to the clinical use of drugs and therapeutic approaches. (Source: Expert-Reviews.com, Dec. 2009)
Expert Review ofPharmacoeconomics and Outcomes Research
FDA Draft Guidance: Distribution of journal articles on unapproved uses
On February 15, 2008, the U.S. Food and Drug Administration (FDA) issued draft guidance that would allow drug or medical device manufacturers to distribute medical journal articles and scientific or medical reference publications that discuss unapproved (off-label) new uses for approved drugs or medical devices marketed in the U.S. to health care professionals. In order to ensure that the information is truthful and non-misleading, FDA outlines principles of “Good Reprint Practices” that manufacturers should follow. FDA is accepting public comments on the draft guidance until April 21.
Fierce Bioresearcher
Formulary
Health Affairs
Health Affairs Blog
Blog postings from the journal Health Affairs
Health and Productivity Toolkit
Excellent overview for evaluating health and productivity management programs
Health and Quality of Life Outcomes
Health and Quality of Life Outcomes is an Open Access, peer-reviewed, online journal offering high quality articles, rapid publication and wide diffusion in the public domain. The journal is included in MEDLINE, and all articles are listed in PubMed and PubMed Central (PMC).
Health Economics
Health Economics
Health Economics Knowledge at Wharton
Newsletter and blogspot on issues in health economics, pharmacoeconomics, outcomes research, health care costs, etc.
Health Facilities Management magazine
Health Forum
Publishes books, other communications, information, education and research products and services that advance leadership for health.
Health INFLATION.com
Monthly update of medical care inflation. Use for pricing policy, negotiating contracts, monitoring trends, forecasting
Health Plan Week
Formerly Managed Care Week
Health Research Data for the Real World: the MarketScan Databases
Medstat white paper; click on this link to receive a copy
Health Resources Online: Pay-For-Performance Executive Resource Center
Are you involved in P4P? Healthresourcesonline.com offers a virtual library of executive level P4P including audio conferences, CD-Roms, and a variety of special reports and the industry publication of record: Pay-for-Performance Reporter.
Health Services and Outcomes Research Methodology
Health Services Research Journal
On-line official journal of Assn for Health Services Research; 10+ year index by subject and author.
Healthcare Innovation and Integrated Care Journal
RISAI is a new e-journal covering Innovation and Integration in healthcare systems, services and organisations. RISAI is published both in English and in Spanish.
Healthcare Management Library
From National Health Information and HCPRO, Inc. newsletters that focus on payors and vendors affiliated with payors, such as disease management, capitation and consumer-driven healthcare.
Healthcare Reimbursement Monitor
HealthEconomist.biz
HealthEconomist.biz is a blog concerned with the analysis of current issues in health and health care from an economic perspective. It provides authoritative insight and opinion on all topics in health economics, with particular emphasis on international comparisons, the economic evaluation of health technologies and the valuation of health.
Hospital.Com
Hospital.com is a medical publication geared towards the consumer and professional market. It offers hospital reviews, news and information on various health care topics.
HospitalBenchmarks.com (Part of Ingenix)
View and print reports based on your specific requirements. With HospitalBenchmarks.com you have the ability to search on hospital name, hospital provider number, state, city, zip code, or a combination of any of these terms
Hospitals & Health Networks magazine
iHEA Week (newsletter of International Health Economics Association)
iHEA Week (newsletter of International Health Economics Association)
InPharm.com
Encyclopedia of Genetics, Genomics, Proteomics, and Bioinformatics. Includes News, views, jobs, directories of agencies, professional organization and freelancers, along with thousands of links out into the Internet.
International Journal of Health Care Finance and Economics
International Journal of Technology Assessment in Health Care
ISPOR Connections
A bimonthly ISPOR technical and news publication,
ISPOR CONNECTIONS JANUARY/FEBRUARY 2010
Articles include: Thoughts on the Validity of a New QALY EstimatorHealth Care Decision-Making Around the World: A Global Roadmap and Country-Specific Decision-Making and Reimbursement Processes Assessment of Use of Pharmacoeconomics and Outcomes Research in Asia: The ISPOR Asia Consortium Needs Survey Report.
Journal of American Medical Association
Journal of Clinical Epidemiology
Journal of Clinical Outcomes Management
Journal of Drug Assessment
From the same stable as Journal of Clinical Research, Journal of Medical Economics and Journal of Outcomes Research
Journal of Evaluation in Clinical Practice
Journal of Health Economics
Journal of Health Economics
Journal of Healthcare Finance
Journal of Managed Care Pharmacy
Official journal of Academy of Managed Care Pharmac.
Journal of Medical Economics
Journal of Mental Health Policy and Economics
Journal of Mental Health Policy and Economics
Journal of Occupational and Environmental Medicine
Journal of Pharmaceutical Finance, Economics & Policy
Now merged with J Managed Pharmaceutical Care
Journal of Pharmaceutical Health Services Research
A brand new journal that aims to become a focal point for the publication of all aspects of research within the field of health services research that relate to pharmaceuticals. The first issue is due to publish in March 2010.
Journal of Pharmaceutical Marketing & Management
Journal of Pharmacy Technology
Journal of Postgraduate Medicine
Journal of Research in Pharmaceutical Economics
Journal of Risk Analysis
Knowledge at Wharton Health Economics
Always topical, well-written, key opinion leaders.
Managed Care Digest Series (from Sanofi Aventis)
Provides detailed statistical information for several key health care markets.
Managed Care Information Center
Clearinghouse for healthcare executives' managed care information needs by publishing newsletters, advisories, jobs, guides, manuals, special reports and books.
Managed Care On-line
Specializing in delivering managed care information and applications via the internet and software applications.
Managed Care Weekly Watch
Weekly newsletter; sign up for free email delivery from THe Managed Care Information Center.
Materials Management in Health Care magazine
Purchasing, managing, and using supplies, equipment, and resources.
Medical Decision-Making
Medical Devices Business Review
Medical Devices Business Review is a definitive point of reference for the Industry news; from expert opinion, to detailed research reports and industry analysis. Our website has up-to-date industry news on the medical industry sector and you may find some interesting news articles.
Medical Devices Business Review
Medical Devices Business Review is a definitive point of reference for the Industry news; from expert opinion, to detailed research reports and industry analysis. Our website has up-to-date industry news on the medical industry sector and you may find some interesting news articles.
Medical Devices Business Review
Medical Device Business Review is online source for the medical device industry news and developments. It’s a resource for medical device manufacturers, suppliers and contractors information.
Medical Executive-Post
HEALTHCARE ORGANIZATIONS [Journal of Financial Management Strategies] "Bridging the Intersection of Medical Mission and Profit Margin"
Medical Letter on Drugs and Therapeutics
Independent, peer-reviewed, nonprofit publication that offers unbiased critical evaluations of drugs, with special emphasis on new drugs, to physicians and other members of the health professions. It evaluates virtually all new drugs and reviews older drugs when important new information becomes available on their usefulness or adverse effects. Published every other week in a four-page newsletter format, it carries no advertising and is supported entirely by subscription fees. A typical issue appraises two or three new drugs in terms of their effectiveness, toxicity, cost and possible alternatives.
MedicareNewsWatch.com
Merck Manuals
Online versions of the most widely used medical text. Covers human diseases, symptoms, common clinical procedures, and laboratory tests.
Modern Healthcare Online
New Drug Pocketbinder for Pharmacy
Newly released drugs are listed and reviewed. The New Drug Pocketbinder provides brief, concise summaries of the latest new drug releases in pocketsized monograph format.
New England Journal of Medicine
New York Times Article: "Employers Offer Free Drugs to Save Costs"
Published on 2/21/07, it describes the move by several employers to offer free drugs to improve employees functioning and reduce long-term costs. Mentions several companies involved in this progressive benefit management. Good if you are involved in employer research.
P&T Community
An online resource for P&T committee members in hospital-based and managed care organizations. Formkit provides P&T members with pharmacoeconomic information, FDA and industry news, and access to the most up-to-date formulary kits.
Pay for Performance Reporter
Costs $250-$350, once-monthly, put out by MCIC.
Pharma Marketing News
By John Mack
Pharmaceutical Industry News
Pharmaceutical Business Review provides latest pharma industry news, developments and analysis reports. It also offers a comprehensive breakdown of pharmaceutical manufacturers, contractors and suppliers information.
Pharmacoeconomics
Pharmacy Week Journal
PharmaVoice
PharmScope
Serves managed care professionals who control or influence pharmaceutical buying decisions for their organizations, intended for formulary decision-makers
Preventing Chronic Disease
From CDC
Public Health Reports Online
Journal of the U.S. Public Health Service, peer-reviewed journal bi-monthly--six issues offering articles in three main areas: public health practice, research, and viewpoints/commentaries.
Quality of Life Research
Reimbursement IQ: 2009 ASCO Special Report
Do you work with Oncology products? Reimbursement IQ will report payer reactions to the most followed clinical data presentations at the 2009 American Society of Clinical Oncology annual meeting in Orlando, Florida, via its 2009 ASCO Special Report. The report will assess how payers evaluate these oncology products in- and post- development from a clinical and economic perspective. The report will uncover payer reimbursement perspectives and provide insight on formulary management, restrictions and pricing sensitivity.
Risk Analysis Journal
Statistics in Medicine
Good place for publishing meta-analyses
Strategies in Pharmacoeconomics and Outcomes Research
White paper, with basic information. Good for students
Studies in Health Technology and Information
The Patient
Journal focussed on patient centered outcomes research. Jointly published by Johns Hopkins University and Wolters Kluwer
Trustee Magazine
Value in Health
Official journal of ISPOR
Value in Health
Value in Health offers readers the opportunity to access complete articles to be published in upcoming issues of Value in Health. These articles are citable by DOI, and by volume and issue.
Wolters Kluwer Health | Adis




 

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